"El laberinto de la soledad" del genio, o las paradojas de El hombre mediocre

Mailhe, Alejandra

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“…Some classic works on José Ingenieros (Bagú, 1963; Mailhe, 2013; Terán, 2008) have highlighted that from 1911, the author started a new stage in his production as a result of the conflict with the then Argentine president, Roque Sáenz Peña, and the latter’s decision of denying Ingenieros tenure as the Chair of Legal Medicine in the Universidad de Buenos Aires. This caused Ingenieros to go into self-exile in Europe and finally publish El Hombre Mediocre in 1913, almost as a direct recrimination against the president.…”

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“…While still being critical of the masses and the risks of democracy, he softened his stance and considered that if the people were not submissive, political progress could still be achieved. Mailhe (2013) argues that these changes served the purpose of positioning the book as a work that transcended political conjuncture and instead become a philosophical reference across time and geography.…”

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“…Ingenieros argued that the pursuit of moral ideals served to guide evolution, and along with his previous ideas, he read historical developments through an evolutionary lens (Mailhe, 2013). Ingenieros devoted a part of his book to justifying the order of society from the placement of individuals within a gradual scale of intellectual level combined with idealism.…”

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Intellectual aristocracy in the dawn of Argentine democracy: José Ingenieros on genius and mediocrity.

Molinari

2023

History of Psychology

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This article explores how psychological categories linked to the mental level, such as genius, mediocrity, and intellectual superiority, were directly intertwined with political discourse in the early 20th century. To illustrate this, I analyze El Hombre Mediocre (The Mediocre Man) published in 1913 by José Ingenieros, seemingly as a direct critique of the law for free democratic elections in Argentina sanctioned in 1912. The book's main argument drew on psychological categories to explain that democracy was, in fact, a poor choice in government. Ingenieros' main concern was that the population was mostly mediocre and therefore unable to govern or elect a suitable candidate to run the country. One category that stood out in his analysis was the "genius." This term was reserved for men who demonstrated exceptional intelligence and remarkable morals and ideals. The methodology used in this article is based on the qualitative and interpretative analysis of bibliographical sources (which include books of essays, scientific papers, and books aimed at lay audiences) from the perspective of intellectual history and the critical history of psychology. I argue that Ingenieros' book served as a political essay founded on a comprehensive scientific explanation, even if it was aimed at a lay audience. This analysis shows the productivity of psychological categories referring to giftedness, intelligence, and talent, in adulthood for assessing political movements and planning new imagined societies through the history of psychology.

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Molinari

2023

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El Archivo de Archivos: un latinoamericanismo eurocéntrico en la psiquiatría y la criminología de principios del siglo XX

Mailhe

2014

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Archivos de psiquiatría, criminología, medicina legal y ciencias afines (dirigida por José Ingenieros, y editada entre 1902 y 1913) juega un papel clave, a nivel nacional y continental, como instancia privilegiada para consolidar la psiquiatría y la criminología como disciplinas científicas. Esta publicación crea una red latinoamericana -sin precedentes- de autores e ideas, con centro en Buenos Aires. Este trabajo considera el tipo de identidad latinoamericana que se perfila en esta publicación y el tipo de culturas populares que se modelizan indirectamente a partir de los casos allí estudiados.

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Constructions of the gaucho as vagrant and idle and as a born criminal: Portraits of Juan Moreira (Argentina, 19th and 20th centuries)

Miranda

2023

Cult. Hist. Digit. J.

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This article examines aspects of the discourse of power by which the figure of the Argentine gaucho was labeled as a “vagrant and idle” subject, based on the study of the archetypical Juan Moreira. In particular, the article explores analyses carried out decades after his death, influenced by the theories of Cesare Lombroso and Nicola Pende. Born in 1829 and killed at the hands of the police in 1874, Moreira became an emblematic personality of local folklore. Although his life has been the subject of extensive literary analysis, largely focused on the publication of Eduardo Gutiérrez’s novelistic portrayal, there has not been as much focus on the attempt to validate scientifically his stigmatization using the theories of these Italian thinkers. This text, therefore, explores readings of Juan Moreira carried out during the 20th century by two doctors, José Ingenieros and Nerio Rojas. In methodological terms, triangulation techniques were used, taking as vertices the legislation in place at that time, the interpretations of his life made through his transformation into a literary and film character, and finally, the aforementioned psychodiagnostic evaluations based on the integration of hypothetical environmental and innate characteristics.

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"El laberinto de la soledad" del genio, o las paradojas de El hombre mediocre

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Intellectual aristocracy in the dawn of Argentine democracy: José Ingenieros on genius and mediocrity.

Intellectual aristocracy in the dawn of Argentine democracy: José Ingenieros on genius and mediocrity.

El Archivo de Archivos: un latinoamericanismo eurocéntrico en la psiquiatría y la criminología de principios del siglo XX

Constructions of the gaucho as vagrant and idle and as a born criminal: Portraits of Juan Moreira (Argentina, 19th and 20th centuries)

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